...to Roosevelt the next day, Churchill insisted that he could not "take responsibility for the defence of India if everything has again to be thrown into the melting pot at this critical juncture" and warned that "anything like a serious difference between you and me would break my heart and surely...

...from India as he had already left, and added that he could not take responsibility for the defence of India 'if everything has again to be thrown into the melting pot at this juncture'. He added that he proposed to keep the telegram purely private and did not intend to bring...

...do not feel I could take responsibility for the defense of India," he cabled Roosevelt the next day, "if everything has again to be thrown into the melting pot at this critical juncture." 3 After Roosevelt was rebuffed by the prime minister, American policymakers adopted a more cautious...

...who are fighting Nazism.'48 Winston replied that he could not 'take responsibility for the defence of India if everything has again to be thrown into the melting pot at this critical juncture'. In Hinge of Fate, the fourth volume of his memoirs, he commented bitterly, 'I was thankful that events...